Have Body, Will Guard Books in Order
Part ofNeil Plakcy Books in OrderExplore the Have Body, Will Guard series by Neil Plakcy in order, with summaries, series background, and where to start with Aidan and Liam.
Last updated: June 29, 2026
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Publication Order
14 books
Three Wrong Turns in the Desert
by Neil Plakcy
2009
ESL teacher Aidan Greene meets bodyguard Liam McCullough in Tunisia just as a dead courier and hard men close in. Their attraction builds fast while they race through the desert carrying a deadly secret.
Dancing with the Tide
by Neil Plakcy
2010
A gay pop star on Tunisia's resort coast needs protection, and Aidan and Liam take the job. Bombs, threats, and jealousy test their still-new partnership on and off the clock.
Teach Me Tonight
by Neil Plakcy
2011
Aidan and Liam guard a spoiled student at an English-language institute, but the job quickly turns dangerous. Old loyalties, career doubts, and a ruthless enemy put their romance under strain.
Olives for the Stranger
by Neil Plakcy
2012
During Tunisia's Jasmine Revolution, Aidan and Liam are asked to protect a young girl whose activist parents are in danger. Love, prejudice, and unrest press hard on both the case and the couple.
Under the Waterfall
by Neil Plakcy
2013
On Corsica, Aidan and Liam protect a mining executive's family while two college-age sons fall into a Romeo-and-Juliet-style romance. Business rivalry and island politics turn lethal.
The Noblest Vengeance
by Neil Plakcy
2014
Aidan's cousin pulls the bodyguards into danger when Sephardic relatives in Istanbul need help getting out safely. Family history and assassins test both the mission and the men's relationship.
Finding Freddie Venus
by Neil Plakcy
2015
A former porn star hires Aidan and Liam after he thinks he has a stalker. What starts as a protection job becomes a messy tangle of past mistakes, fresh danger, and an unexpected second chance at love.
A Cold Wind
by Neil Plakcy
2016
Aidan and Liam protect a disgraced Russian oligarch on the Riviera after an assassination attempt. The job brings danger, loneliness, and questions about whether they're getting too old for close protection.
The Same Page
by Neil Plakcy
2018
A contemporary MM romance about finding common ground, emotional honesty, and the hard work of seeing another man as he really is. Career pressure and old habits make that harder than either hero expects.
The Madness of Husbands
by Neil Plakcy
2020
Aidan and Liam return to bodyguard work when Aidan's ex calls in crisis. At a Bahamas conference, they must decide whether the threats around a troubled diplomat are delusion or something much worse.
The Most Expensive Spice
by Neil Plakcy
2020
A Syrian refugee and a rich spice-heir fall hard just as someone starts trying to kill one of them. Aidan and Liam step in on the French Riviera, where romance and terrorism both threaten the case.
The Graveyard of God's Name
by Neil Plakcy
2021
Aidan and Liam guard a young Oxford scholar whose ancient scroll could change lives and careers. On Djerba, scholarship, faith, and murder-minded enemies collide.
The Feet of Blue Pigeons
by Neil Plakcy
2022
During a pandemic lull, Aidan and Liam head to Luxembourg to protect an old friend who uncovered money laundering. Masks, immigrant smuggling, and old wounds make danger harder to read.
The Designer of His Own Fortune
by Neil Plakcy
2024
A romance about reinvention, ambition, and the risks that come with trying to build a better life on your own terms. Plakcy keeps the focus on emotional honesty as well as attraction.
Series background & context
The Have Body, Will Guard books are romantic adventures first and foremost. They follow Aidan Greene and Liam McCullough, a pair of men who protect LGBTQ clients in dangerous situations, but the real engine of the series is the relationship between them. One is an English teacher who gets pulled into a bigger life than he expected. The other is a trained bodyguard and former Navy SEAL who already knows how ugly the world can get.
They meet in Tunisia, and the series takes off fast from there.
From the beginning, these books balance attraction with danger. Aidan and Liam may be dodging smugglers, intelligence agents, political unrest, blackmail, assassins, or stalkers, but the emotional question is usually just as important as the tactical one. Can they trust each other? Can they work together without one man disappearing into duty and the other into self-doubt? Can love survive a life built around constant movement and risk?
Travel is one of the big pleasures here. Tunisia, Djerba, the French Riviera, Corsica, Istanbul, the Bahamas, Luxembourg, and other locations are not just scenery. Each place shapes the stakes of the story, whether the book is dealing with revolution, diplomatic pressure, old family loyalties, religion, art, or exile. The settings give the series its pace and color, but they also keep the heroes slightly off balance, which suits the mood.
The clients vary a lot too. Some are pop stars, some are scholars, some are frightened young people, some are rich men with enemies, and some are simply people whose queerness puts them at risk in the wrong place at the wrong time. That gives the series room to move between action, romance, politics, and found family. Aidan and Liam are often protecting others, but they are also trying to protect what they are building together.
These books move.
The tone is high-energy, sexy, and openly emotional. There is heat on the page, but the stories are not only about chemistry. They are about courage, aging, compromise, and the strange practical details of being a couple whose work keeps tossing them into crises. As the series continues, Aidan and Liam become more established, and that shift, from new desire to hard-earned partnership, gives later books a different kind of depth.
If you want MM romance with action at its core, a wide international canvas, and a couple who have to earn every bit of their happy ending, this is a good place to land. Start with Three Wrong Turns in the Desert. After that, follow them from one job, one country, and one emotional challenge to the next.
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